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Be more positive than negative
Do you use a positive or negative mentality in your class? Do you focus on pointing out the positives of students’ learning or do you concentrate more on the negatives? Tom Connellan, “Inside the Magic...
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Pre-checking for Student Engagement Through PowerPoint
Like many teachers, I use PowerPoint to guide the lesson. I like that I can have all the images, videos, quotes, essential questions, class activities, etc. in one place for the lesson. Lately, I have...
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Providing Classroom Variation
My wife and I like to go to productions of the musical Godspell to see how the director will vary the setting, costumes, and dialogue and yet keep the central message of the play. Godspell is a...
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Student or Teacher Duty: Improving Time for Feedback
On Sunday, the church congregation was surprised to see a young ten year boy be the liturgist. He said the prayers, introduced the hymns, and read the scripture. The boy had listened to the adults who...
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Having Students Go from Proficient to Above Proficient Through Improvements
In my Oral presentations (speech) class, I’m grading their final speeches on how much they have improved from when they originally gave the speech. They have to show me their original speech, the...
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Baby Walking and Improving Student Learning
My grandson is beginning to walk. He takes about ten steps and then falls down. He crawls over to the nearest table/chair and gets up again. He does not get discouraged about failing to walk many...
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Successful Student Writing Through Formative Assessment, my book
My book, Successful Student Writing Through Formative Assessment, is available at http://tinyurl.com/writingtuttle. The book provides a systematic approach of observing students’ written work,...
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21st Century Skills: Making a Difference
We can have our students develop many 21st century skills but they may not use any of these skills for anything other than their own academic improvement. We can help them to use their skills to make...
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Check Lower Level Learning Immediately (Formative Assessment)
We all want our students to be learning at the higher levels of thinking. However, they first have to learn lower level information. For example, Spanish students want to converse in the language...
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Constant Peer Review on the Same Essay Improves Student Writing
I teach a college composition course. We spend much time in peer reviewing (probably 70% of class time) in a formative assessment process. Today the students had their 6th peer review on the same...
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